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M A I.lc. Altai tD-1 Gottenburgh, t Dttb!in. Due- -t Cotten iburghh, i Malta, 3 W atertbrd. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Dai Y AT TWELNIN. O'CLOCK. Consols 66i 1 Red. Aun. - 11101 - 1 WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE TO-MOP.- Morning, 0 rain. after o. ROW Afternoon, 6 min. niter 12. TEL SUN. 30LILM QULS DiCtitt FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 IV, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1808: FRENCH ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLES I:!T, SPAIN'. \V this morning received Paris Papers to the tith instant. They contain from the Fifth to the Twelfth Bulletin, inclusive. The late hour at which these Papers reached us, renders it imposes sible for us to submit to our Readers any detailed observations on the mass of intelligence which they bring, but upon the first view of the subjeEt, the Frenok official accounts are by no means so un. favourable as we expected. The Moniteur, as we have already stated, came down to the 11 th, but the Twelfth Bulletin is in the Monileur of the 6th, and the Papers of the 7th, sth, gth, and a oth, do not contain one word of news respeling Spain. We may therefore presume that the French didnot obtain any important advantage after the viaory over Gem CASTANOS. With rGspea to tbat battle, the French by no means claim so decided a viaory as we were taught to expe6t. The Bulletin statcs, that the Spa- Wish Army consisted of 45,000 men, and three thousand of them were. killed, and about 100.0 taken prisoners. Knowing the habitual e4ag- aeration of the French, We may safely make consi- derable declu6tions from this statement : but. even allowing it to be true, the Spanish army still con- sists of :38,000 Meth It does not appear that, tho' defeated, the Spaniards were dispersed; , on-,the contrary, ' the Bulletin states, that -they bad treated upon Saragossa. Another strong proof; (if any addi►ional• proof were wanting); that CASTANOS'S Army is not ,Innilli:ated 2 that the French, notwithstan4ing their vicAory, nave not ventured, • to advitr.ce very far. The batik: 'vas fought near inciela, and the last Bulletin is dated the 28th ult. at Aranda de Duero, which is in Old Castile, about . 45 roilei' to the S.E. of Valladolid. acconnts thaefore of the French having enter- ed Madrid is unfounded they (have not even reached the frontiers of Nes,v Castile. Upon the whole, therefore, we are inclined to ;.onsider these accounts (even admitting the whole of them to be Init..) as by no means calculated to excite any thing like pond:ncy for the cause of the Spaniards. These Bulletins do not contain any accounts from the Army of the North subsequent to those which have Oredy reached clivi , ion of the French Army had commenced the siege of Itosui. a sea-port in Catalouia, awl the Moniteur gives a detailed account of the progress of the siege. IT , was this morning very confidently reported, that Loci CHATnAm h;►d been appointed Com mander in Chief of the British Arnica in Spain and Portugal, and that be had left town to embark for Spain, but we have no rea , on to believe the report. We are sorry to find, by Letters from Columbo. thnt our commerce in the 'lndian seas suffered se verely by the Piednontoise, ptevionsly to her cape ture by the S t. Eiurenzo. The following are the, ships stated to have been captured by her : Furth, GREENWAY, bound from Calcutta to )3us, sorah, insured for two lacks of rupees. Assitiance, CH rm AN 2 nom Bombay to Columbo. Sophia, 11 4Nprn-os, from ditto toditto. Fogz AHAB, trim Calcutta to Bombay. c o udir .kouli, Khan, iicig,ll to IlLirnbay. The Thzui;(l Maria, ,I"ortrue`kVfrotti Cdchiti to Columbo,* kesource Corolina,ilighland :Aid; Cal cutta Sarah, Mtistablta, .4; qzii4a, and:Uiney ; be sides a rich sltiv, name.u ,, t, ascertained, frthiliiierrgal• I t o B.imbay, and a small vess:.l, which she burnt.: The cruizing staf,on,-v4ich the Piedmontaise oc- Oupied, was favourable 'for intetceptinf the trade bound to the Malabar coast and the7Gulphs; in fact, bearcqy a vessel, bound that way, could escape Ler. The Althea, Elizateth, and Experiment were cap. tared by La Semillaate ; as were the Icrafalgar, Mangles, S t urm, and Admiral aplia Oast sunk) by Z i e Re, venana. Th . :rty of the Warren Hastings' people were sere op board 4. f e Reaena.q. The poor fellows, it is ;aid. , were tiogged and starved, nail . tbey were coin pellyd to enter. FREACH PAPERS. FIFTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY IN SPAIN. BURGOS, Nov. lg.—The fate of the . Army of Estremadura has been decided in the plains of Bur gos. The Galician Army, beaten in the battles of Durango, Guenes, and Valmaseda, has been dis persed in the battle of E4pinosa. This army was composed of the ancient Spanish Troops, which were in Portugal and Galicia, and which quitted Porto towards the end of June; the Militia of Gali cia, Asturias, and Old Castile ; of 5000 Spanish Prisoners-which the English had cloathed and armed at theii'expetace, -and disembarked at St. Andero ; of the Volunteers of Galicia, and of Regiments of Ar ., tillery, ,and of the troops which the traitor ROMAN A had carried away from the-North. This army had the presumption to attempt cutting off our commu nication with Biscay. For ten days it was driven from post to post : at last, on the 10th of November, it arrived at Espinosa, where, in order to save its artillery, magazines, &c. it formed in order of battle, as it believed, in a situation not to be forced. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Marshal BELLUNE arrived in front of the enemy. General PATCHOD was ordered to carry a small battery occupied by the troops of the traitor RomaNA. This position was excellent, and defended by their best troops; but General PATCHOD with his corps fell upon these troops, who had abused onr confidence, and broken their oaths. In an instant they were broken and driven down the precipices. The enemy made se 7 veral attacks, in all of which they were defeated. During the night both armies remained in, their positions. While this was taking place, the Duke of Dalmatia. marched towards Reynosa, the only re ' treat of the enemy. At break of day the enemy were attacked both on the right and left by the Dukes of Dantzic and Bellune, and General, MAI. , soil advanced against his centre. The enemy I ' • fled, throwing aWay, his arms and , colours( and abandoning his ~ a rtillery. The Duke of Dantzic took at Reynosa their attillery, / magazines and bag- . g a g e, and - tnatld', some. - prisoners. ' Thus the enemy have begn turned not only at Rey nosa, but at Palentia. Sixty pieces of cannon have been taken, 20,000. men killed or pri• sowers,, tWti'Sp'anish Generals killed. All the suc cours, in ,arms, i Scc. sent by. the Engli§h, have fallen into our hands: BLAKE saved himself by taking to . the Asturian mountains ; I.IOMAYA, with a few thousand,ruen, is marching towards St. Andero. 7 --• Our lass is' trifling in these combats, not exceeding 30 killed and 300 wounded. We have not lost any °dicer of distindion. SIXTH BULLETIN Of• THE ARMY IN SPAIN. Burgos, Nov. ISth. Of the 40,000 men . who composed the army of Galicia, part has been killed and taken, and the rest are dispersed. The remains arrive daily at our posts ; th'e General of Division DELGELLi has taken :WO prisoners in the environs of Vasconcelles. Col. TASCHER, who commands the First Regi ment of Chasseurs, attacked the escort of the spa nish General AVVEDO j tote troops, who composed the escort, having made some resistance, they were all put to the sword. Gicneral BoNNETT, with his division, fell ;n with the head of column of fugitives, consisting of 2,QQO men; they were partly taken, and partly destroyed. The Marshal Duke of Istria, who commands the cavalry of the army, entered Aranda on the 16.tb, at noon. Our advanced parties of hor4* go on the left, as far as Saria and. Madrid, and. on , the right.to Leon and Zamora.- The Enemy evacuated Aranda with the utmost precipitation, leaving there four pieces of cannon, a considerable magazine of biscuit, 40,000 quintals of grain, and a large quantity of clothing were found in that town. In Reynosa numerous English effeas were found, and a consideral4e quantity of prov,isions of every description. The inhabitants of Montana, and, of the whole plain of Castile, which extends to Portugal, and of the province of Soun, detest and : curse the authors of this war, and earnestly demand peace and repose. Twenty thousand bales of wool, worth from 15 to 24 millions, which were seized in Burgos, have been sent to Bayonne. SEVENTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY DI SPAIN. Bußoos, Nov. o.—On the 16th the van of the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia entered St. Ander°, and ,found there a large quantity of flour, ammunition, and English goods. The Bishop of St. Andero, animated rather with the spirit - of the devil than that of the gospel, is al ways marching with a cutlass by his sidw, has talen . shelter on board the English Frigates. The cavalry of General LASALLE has pushed its advanced posts as far as Tome Sierra. The Regim?nts of Zarnora, and of the Princess, 4 . • which. formed part of ROMANA 9 3 cliyision,, art entirely ann'4hilated. EIGHTH RULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAI'. BUXGOS, Nov. 22.-.-The Duke of DALMAIIA is following his successes with the utmost a&ivity. A convoy of artillery, ammunition, and EngliAt muskets, were taken in the port of Canillas, the very moment when the ships were under the point of gettMg under weigh. General SARRAT, at the head of his brigatie, con in ties vigorously to pursue the enemy. He passed Montana, and entered Astoria. The light com panies of the 36th regiment have seized in the port of Santellaaa, an English convoy laden with sugar, coffee, cotton, and other Colonial commodities..m. The number of English Vessels, richly laden, which have been taken on this coast, amounts already to twenty-five. The 7th Corps of the Army of Spain, command ed by General . Gouzort ST. Cur, his also began its operations. On the 6th of November the place of Rosas was. invested by Generals REP,LE and PERZON A and the heights of St. Pedro were carried by the Italians, a large number of Muquilets and English occupied the pas of Se lva they were attacked by General FONTANA, at the head of three battalions of light infantry, and dashed into the sea with the loss of ten 24-pounders, four of which were which they had not time to embark. On the tith the garrison of Rosas made a sortie in three columns, proteaed by the guns of the English General 114zu - glit.o killed 600 of them, and repulsed the rest. It is supposed that the head-quarters will be re, moved from liurgos in the :course of the night. The 9th Bulletin is dated the 25,th ult. at Aranda„ and merely contains, details of the positions of the armies. The Tenth Bulletin is dated AranJa, the 26th November, and states, that the Spanish efretlive force is 180,000 men. Eighty thousand effectixe men, 6i),0o0 of which are, armed, and who pose.d the armies of Galidia and Estremadura, corn manded by BLAKE, gemANA, and At.uz;o, hays been dispersed or put hors , de c0nz4374. The army of Andalusia, of Velence, of Nouvelle,. Castile, and Arragon, commanded by CArt:Axos, PINAS, and PALArO;, and which likewise eon- Listed of 80,000 men, viz. 60,000 armed, will sopn meet with its fate, as the . Duke of Montebello has received orders to attack it in front with 30,000 men, .vtillst the Dukes, of lellengen and Bellune are placed behind it. There are besides 60,000 effective tocrt (40,00 p of whom are armed), 5.0,000 of which are in 0.11;4. lonia, and 10,000 at Madrid, Valencia, and °the depOts. Prior to marching beyond the Duero, the Emperor has come to the resolution toanni,hilate the armies of the centre And left, and to serve in the same manner that of the. right under General CAs- TANOS. When this plan shall have been executed, the march upon Madrid will be only a walk (prome nade). This great design ougbt UQW to have been accomplished. ELLVENTH BULLETIN O,F THE ARMY OF SPAIN. Aranda de Duero, Nov. 27, tgoil. Pants, DEc. 4.—His Majesty on the tgth sent off the Marshal Duke of Montebello. with instrue-, tions for the movements of the left, of which he gave him the command. The Duke of Montebello, and the Duke of Co neglia.po, concerted measures together at Lodosa on the 20th, for the execution of the orders of his Ma-. jesty. Op the !; , ,t,st, the division of General LAGRANGE, with the brigade of Light Cavalry of General COL.. BUT, and the brigade of Dragoons of General Di- JON, set out, frop Logrogno by the right of the Ebro. At the same time the four divisions composing the corps of the puke o(Conegliano passed the river at Lodosa, abandoning the whole country between the Ebro and Fampeluna. On the hid, at the break of day, the French army began its march. It took its aireetiDn to Ca lahora, where, on the evening before, were the head-quarters of CAstAxos. It found that town evacuated, and afterwards marched upon Alfaro. The enemy had in like manner retreated. On the 23d, at break of day, the General of Di vision LEFEBVRE, at the head of the cavalry, and supported by the division of General MORLOT, forming the advanced guard, met with the enemy. He immediately gave information to the Duke of Montebello, who found the army of the enemy in seven divisions, consisting of 45,000, men, wider arms, with its right before Tudela, and its left occupying a line of a league and a half; a dispo sition absolutely bad. The Arragonese were on `. the light, the troops of Valencia and, New Castile in the centre, and the three divisions of Andalusia, Which General CASTANOS commanded, more especi ally formed the left. Forty pieces of catuton covered the enemy's line. At nine-in the morning the columns of the French army began to deploye, With that order, that regu larity and coolness, which charaderize veteran troops. Situations were chosen for establishing batteries with sixty pieces of cannon, but the im petuosity of the troops, and the inquietude ot . th ° enemy, did not allow time for this. The SpAnish. was already vanquished, by the _order and move" meats of the French army. to Duke of Mogrzsztr.o. mused the centre be pierced by the division of the General MAURICE MATHIEU. The General of Divisio n Lsrsvilf, with his cavalry, immediately passed throug openingh this apd by a quarter-Wheel to the left, enve loped the whole right of the enemy. The moment when half of the enemy's line founa itself thus turned and defeated, was that in General LAGRANGE attacked the Vil la g e nt. C3s* clnte, where the line of CASTANOS was pinc e ' l ' and which did not exhibit a better countenance than the right, but abandoned the field of battle, lea viag behind it its artillery, and a' great number of Pris°n ers. The cavalry pursued the remains of the e ° " my 's army to Mallem, in the direction of Savag e° and to Terracotta, in the diredion of Agreda. standards, 30 pieces of cannon, with all their M ill. ' 1! Colonels, 300 officers, and 3 00 0 men, I)3° lure, been taken ; 4000 Spaniards have been left dead on th ° field of battle or have been driven into the Ebro. ° Li ; 400 wounded ; • among loss has been trifling ;we have had 60 inch 30 to Divisionf-dAgaANGE, who has receive d a Wilet the arm. Our troops found at Tudela a nu.11.1.0,er ° the latter is the Generai.Q tnagazines. The. Marshal Duke of CCILTEALIANO. hay his march upon Saragossa . . While a part of the fugitives, retired, to. this PIAC e ' the left, which had been cut off, fled in disorder tc‘ Tarracona and Agreda. 4oTria4:oll);:hirtetoof.:lvicebbilel!ennLwtibleogvi3adsaOtriZeed:;hi at that case nut a man, would have escaped., 13 ,0,,, 5a 1 ' corps being too much fati l ;ued, remai )ed, at 7 - 0 • the ~ 2 3d, 24th. He arrived at Agredit th at ~sth, still it9tlicieutV in, time to seiz e g rd4t • na b , ber ber of magazines. One named tssr r itrox, formerly a gargl e du ' c / f1).9 • a wan without talent , and without Coursi,eP l i ti c b, of ipsignifieant.monk, the true bead . of apartY,-.to, at; aired him the Dame of .General, Was, °st oo l, take 4igbt. 'Lillis not the first ticne he. O s '. io that rnanner he has dune' the setup 44, P 0.4 sions. god; This army of 45 94Q has been thus bea,VP d a p 0 44 Oete:ited, without our havipg had more men engaged. Of t b° ' The battle of Burgos had.stmck the cen t-- re 'fl e. enemy, and the battle of Espinosa the rip" b 0 battle of Tt4elA has struck the lett-•-•YifAtrse4 thus struck, as with a thunderbolt, an, 14° ' the whole league of the enemy. A of the. [This Bulletin concludes wall the Joull'—s to ,y 04 1 )y, -, operations of the siege cf Roses? w h i ch, IS s uniayesting.] me 9 :l e t n f e re ra sh l 4XTLA_ . FT Av v , at Boya, pursuing E sr, Mprisouers; taking e very it . g rt y, and IP oF. 6 9 00 ; They all below/ to of which is 1 the the number initac:tc:EeTivEkillAsieTTmi:i.•:F:rrsivseduLot.o gsca. ready 0 • to, lea vitae. The so ldi ers quarter to the:aro gave no q Ado peasants. The Dumber of • the troop °f the e .es of cannon, tPr pi. 6 , , is 37. , . , . —. ..--,---.7-r-7.--7, arrive d iii. Ye A ster_ay the Duke of . I:3{,I:4 , IBERL ' AN D k Yesterday the Duke of Yoms, held a town, frona:Windsor. daY at his ()dice in the Horse Guards, ' . I.l " fic ' and gave.a .. ~ to a number of Military Officers. ~„as he ld , Ye ( A. er-ay afternoon a Cabinet Council w: -- • hi'a at the Foreign Office, at which were P res c ii Ai';' Grace the Duke of PORTLAND, the Log° - ° BA' catt.Ort, Earls CAmmoi,, WESTMoaI-ANOP T l y tl A •lii TntiRST; Lords HAwkLISBURY and CAsTr,e'---° Mr. Secretary CANNING, and Mr. PartogVAl" py Letters from Officers in . Sir-JouN blooaa's ar.,105 describe their march of 400 miles, from the 1* 5. (1 .04 10 to Salamanca, as having been supported by out with their usual fortitude and steadiness. On sc; 4 6 ) days they marched 30 indes--they were well r ecei v ~, .in the different towns, and the people .were partic",f put•licl;e, es larly struck with their flue appearane• In soinecust the Place.; the Officers, instead of retil nig to t o after a day's march, went to dances, and kept it, if till the bugle sounded to fall in and continue, ti' march. , __ . 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